what type of stuff can you use for shrapnel?

I personally use 1.5/.5gm lead fishing weights and I load hem into a ping pong ball loaded with GP or BP.When it goes off they usually go through almost anything,I remember one time when i had a ping pong ball half full with i think it was fp but i cant remember,but when it went off the weights went everywere and i went back up to were i set it off and i seen a car door with 2 little holes in it(im guessing from the lead balls)

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Why would you want shrapnel? The whole reason we use paper cases it to reduce shrapnel with the same power a metal case would be. Mixing weights with flash powder is one of the stupidest things i heard of. If you dropped the bomb with weights in flash powder, it would probably go off, so i wouldnt ever do that again.

I want shrapnel because i want to know what the speed,distance and destructivness of it so I can be far away when i make a really big bomb which i probrably wont

what would you want to blow up? I am sure that the shock wave from just the blast would tear up anything.

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Originally posted by Daithai:
what type of stuff can you use for shrapnel?

I personally use 1.5/.5gm lead fishing weights and I load hem into a ping pong ball loaded with GP or BP.When it goes off they usually go through almost anything,I remember one time when i had a ping pong ball half full with i think it was fp but i cant remember,but when it went off the weights went everywere and i went back up to were i set it off and i seen a car door with 2 little holes in it(im guessing from the lead balls)

[This message has been edited by Daithai (edited 11-30-2002).]

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bp or gp... gunpowder or black powder, both are the same i think, mate

si

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Originally posted by NickSG:
what would you want to blow up? I am sure that the shock wave from just the blast would tear up anything.

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I dont want to blow up anything in particular yet,and you are probably right about the shoch wave its just im using shrapnel because i want o know the limitations of it and the saftey of it because im not to sure if anyone has tried that yet here on Totseland

����I once made a destructive little beauty by dipping a cratermaker in glue and then dunking that in a box full of BB's. I don't suggest you do this, though, since it's an excellent way to perforate yourself. Steel BB's bounce readily, and even if the bulk of the wave of shrapnel misses you there's still a chance of it reflecting from some other surface and hitting you in the ass.
����Devices intentionally designed to produce shrapnel are usually a bad idea. Not only is the shrapnel potentially dangerous to you, but a shrapnel producing bomb will be classified as an antipersonel weapon and will land you in even more trouble than normal if you get caught with it.

~Zero

There is no such thing as good shrapnel.

HEh... One day I got bored ( very board) and DEcided to take a pair of scissors to a nickel. It went through. I tried it with a penny and it worked even better. Then I tried it on a dime, an dIt sliced right in half so easily. You can make them into sharp ass points for anti-personnel grenades. If you want mega shrapnel..

Take two drinking glasses(identical). Cut the bottom of one of the glasses off. Now fill one of them with kno3 or some sort of explosive (BP might work better, I just figured the O3 in the Kno3 would make it burn faster. ). Drop in glass from the rest of the drinking glass, BBs, dimes, whatever you can find. Epoxy the bottom of the glass to the glass filled with your explosive, making sure to not forget to insert a fuse. Now put it under a car and take cover.

yeah really shrapnel blows, whether its hitting cars or houses or hitting a person

if you glue bbs to a cratermaker wouldnt it just produce the normal amount of shrapnel just with bbs glued to it or did you not let the glue dry? wouldnt it just be easier to add the bbs in wwith the powder in the bomb?

it would be more dangerous with the bbs inside, becuase if you shake it or drop it, they would spark and blow the thing up. it you want shrapnel(i dont know why you would), i would just glue lead pellets to the cob, becuase they dont bounce around like steel do.

i dont want shrapnel i was just wondering cuz zero said he glued bbs to it and i was jw

i forgot which forum zero posted this at, but he lit a cratermaker inside a box, and counted how many pieces it broke into. i think it was 5 peices, and it went 1/2 inch into wood.

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Originally posted by JakeTakeoko:

Now fill one of them with kno3 or some sort of explosive (BP might work better, I just figured the O3 in the Kno3 would make it burn faster. ). moo.

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Kno3 is inert unless mixed with a fuel so it wont burn at all.

ohh i added the moo to the quote just to see if i could

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Originally posted by 6C:
There is no such thing as good shrapnel.

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You beat me to it.

Schrapnel is not something you want to fuck around with. i.e. if it's close enough to damage someones car then your not far out enough.

����I posted the shrapnel experiment here on Totse. I have since deleted all the images from my server, but I still have them. Maybe I should put them up as an article on KP.

~Zero

yeah, your right, putting the cob experiment on krimzon will make it even better.

Shrapnel is very bad. For one, it can go through body parts that I'm sure you want intact. For two, it can get you in more trouble than a device with no intentionally-added shrapnel. For three, it can cause premature ignition of your device if it is mixed in with the explosive. Alright, so thats a recap of what everyone else said and I agree with.